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For starters, why not have Hollywood team up with teachers to make education more entertaining?
Clueless turns 25 this year. The film, a loose adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, is a cult classic that has spawned books, a TV series, a musical and countless fashion tributes.
The composer of over 500 film scores, Morricone was embraced by Hollywood — but he was always an Italian composer.
Movie director Joel Schumacher’s body of work is profound, and his influence on contemporary Hollywood cinema indelible.
Sixty years after it premiered, Psycho remains Hitchcock’s most celebrated film. But it is really two films, glued together by the most iconic scene in cinema history.
COVID-19 has hit the film industry hard, but some enterprising film-makers are already plotting ways to cope with the ‘new normal’.
From Greta Garbo to Gwyneth Paltrow, the screen cough is reliably fatal. But this film and television favourite walks a fine line between suspense and comedy.
Now that we know what essential work is, it seems the perfect time to reflect upon the not-so-essential work of celebrities.
Nothing passes the time like a singalong to some classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
From Bollywood to Hollywood, which actors are best the connected?
The film misses an opportunity to highlight the broader problems of inequality and discrimination in the media.
Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women gives us perhaps the most explicitly feminist take to date on the classic novel, highlighting the value of women’s joy and labour.
Rogue coffee cups and changing hairstyles can distract film audiences. Whose job is it to maintain continuity? And does it matter in the big picture?
A new analysis of over 400 actors shows that gender discrimination plays a major role in Hollywood salaries.
With big theatre chains refusing to show Martin Scorsese’s new big budget mob movie, the future of cinema is looking a little dimmer.
As strippers take another turn around the pole in Hustlers, a look at Hollywood history shows we like to watch.
Martin Scorsese believes superhero movies are ‘not cinema’. What do the experts think?
We don’t want to have to think about our role in creating the individuals who commit violence. Amazingly, Joker asks us to.
Detailed analysis of 1,300 movies finds that women actors earn an average of US$1.1m or 25% less than their male colleagues.
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Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
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Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
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Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer of Media Studies (Cinema Studies), Penn State
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Professor of Economics, Scripps College
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Film and Media Studies Senior Lecturer, Arizona State University
